JediMaster

I wanted a regular SG-1 game, not an MMO!! To all devs: STOP MAKING MMOs!!!!

We've never had a very big naval sim group here. They tend to congregate at the dedicated sites I guess.

Yes, at 1200 PT yesterday GTR Evo was "unlocked" on Steam. You actually get a new icon for it, but it includes everything Race 07 had. While there are only 3 new tracks I could find (Nord, Nurb, Nurb GP), there are TONS of new cars. There's also a new R-Cade Extreme race mode, which seems to be like a cross between what Race is and something like GRiD or GT5 or something.

Traveling around the US is literally like visiting other countries. I've taken numerous trips around the Caribbean, and although those are all separate countries, there are many similarities even when the languages are different. There are a few states I've not visited yet, although some I've not been to in over 20 years, but I always find that same mix of "like home" and "different than home" in every one.

Oh no. No, no, no. They're not allowed to change it. Who said they could do that?? That was not approved. Floggings all around.

Anyone ever noticed the blind, rabid Il-2 faithful are always the ones that only fly online and never against the AI? When you're flying against other people who have the same limits as you, I can see how it would seem better. Yet if you fly offline or coop against the AI you can find all new sorts of ways to curse Oleg's team... The main problem I had is with Oleg's "we have it right" attitude. Then every patch introduces to changes to at least a few planes if not more!! Well, does that mean it's NOT right now? Or was it not right before? It can't have been right then AND right now if it's changed, can it? Oh, and the online MP-whiners got far too much attention from them. The ruination of the trim system being a major case in point. I can barely work with it now because of how slow it works, but oh, "people are cheating by using trim to turn tighter! WAH!!" Well, that doesn't work in a real airplane, so if it worked here...trim was done wrong! Do they fix it? No, let's have "trim delay"!

Don't think I've had that one. Have you tried reinstalling DX9.0c with the latest version?

Do you mean the printed manual, or the PDF in the directory? That PDF is pretty good, and the one that came with FC is even better, like 250 pages. As for the key commands, like the menus, I think it's a Russian thing. Il-2 is a different developer and suffers the same problem. It's like Russian programmers can't build a good UI.

At least Far Cry 2 will cover that.

Well, it's not like there's a Star Trek out there to compete with.

You forgot "and then came the Arabs who bought Mercedes Benzes, and then Prince Charles started wearing all of Princess Diana's clothes..."

I find it hard to believe the skeleton is still intact after hanging in a tree through decades of storms!

That has even happened here with regular airplane contrails. The sun backlights it in such a way that it looked like the shuttle or something reentering but a LOT slower.

Is that good old Bubb Rubb or whatever? I'd forgotten about this!

Sleep in, do some simming, watch some DVDs. Same old same old. With the wife ready to deliver within a month we're not very mobile.

Yeah, what with the whole holodeck-flashback thing and the cavalier death of a major character...well, I'll be honest it felt more like a poor TNG episode than an ENT one. The idea that they were basically in-between scenes from an old TNG ep where they looked MUCH younger didn't help.

Almalgam Warrior Heh. Brings me back to the good old MST3K days. "I am a Grimald warrior!!"

I've been waiting for this for quite some time now. Unfortunately, I have in my mind's eye how I want this to play and I feel I'll be sorely let down if it turns out to be "Il-2 v5.0" Yes the visuals are much improved, but how about the FMs, DMs, and the AI?? Will .50s work as well as they should? Will every big radial engined plane still flip on its back when you pull back too fast? Will the AI still have the ability to outaccelerate or outdecelerate you at a whim like they have airbrakes and afterburners? While I enjoy the time/theaters/planes of Il-2, I often find dogfighting more enjoyable in TK's sims because of how much they do NOT frustrate me!

Quite simply, if the laptop has a video chip with full DX8/9/10 compliance it should run. Performance may vary. However, if it's an Intel integrated video chip, whatever the designation, good chance you'll get artifacting and weirdness and maybe lock ups.

Well, now I know! Steam now has preordering ($2 off the $20 regular price, or off the $35+ price of the combined Race 07/GTRE bundle). The game is to go "live" on 9/1/2008. So that's Monday, a holiday, how great!

Red Flag is "conventional warfare" training. Green Flag I believe is centered more on EW training.

No, I just meant "on a wooden-decked A/C carrier."

I have no doubt the problem with the CIA is at the top, not the bottom. The rank and file care about doing their job, not making sure this or that political decision is supported or disproved. They collect, collate, and present to their superiors. It's the superiors who write/edit the final reports to make sure THEIR bosses are happy and don't look like fools. They'll always say "we were mislead" or "intelligence was faulty/lacking" over "we had the proof but threw it out".

I don't get it...how can a controller where you aim with your thumb be better than a mouse where you get the precision of your entire hand? Ever since 1994 I've been playing FPS games with a mouse and I find it 10x more precise than that overshooting I get when aiming with a gamepad. Of course, to compensate many console games make it far easier to aim via "autoaim" or larger hitboxes or something. On PC FPS you're usually forced to actually HIT the target yourself, which is quite hard without a decent mouse, of course.

It's not the only problem. Another is "instant ratings." A decade or more in the past, ratings were taken during "sweeps", which was basically 2 months a year, once in the fall and once in the spring. Many series were given their first season to prove themselves. Now shows can be cancelled in the blink of an eye because the ratings aren't good, even if the show is just starting to find its audience and get going. Firefly had 2 problems--one, the pilot wasn't aired until well after the show was cancelled. The Train Job was ok as a "second" pilot, but I think it really would've done better had the first pilot been first to air. Second, as aired the show was weak in the first half. I for one watched the first 3 or so eps and then stopped. I tried watching again about a month later and found it much improved and started watching regularly...and it was cancelled. How many like me stopped early but unlike me never went back? Rewatching them on DVD and SFC later on I saw just how promising a show it was. We got Serenity to sort of "cap off" the series, like the Farscape miniseries did for that series, but like FS it's just as gone now. The film didn't draw in enough people. I know a guy who watched Serenity never having seen FF...he said it was just "meh." Then he went back later, watched the series on DVD, and rewatched the film on DVD. He said, "Wow, it's so much better when you know the characters." The 2nd time he also cared when characters were killed. In the first film viewing he just shrugged and said "Ok, they died." So far as bringing people who didn't know the show into the fold, the film failed. He only watched FF on DVD later because of how much I liked it and he couldn't see why based on the film alone. Same thing with Enterprise, the only ST series since the first to be cancelled, but it was cancelled after it got better! Its first 2 seasons were just as poor as TNG's first 2 years, but people tuned out sooner because unlike TNG it wasn't "fresh" anymore. They found their footing a lot faster than the previous shows did (good in S3, great in S4), but that was too late. It's really a shame because I think its final year was one of the best ST ever did...except for the series finale. That was an abomination brought about my last-minute notice of cancellation and having to throw together a finale real fast. A big shame there.